City man helps map floor of Arctic Ocean (click on title to entry)
Work aims to aid Canadian land claim
Lloyd Litwin with some of the photos of his Arctic adventure
Photograph by : Richard Marjan
Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m
Local Time: May 27, 2008
8:49 AM AKDT
Lat/Lon: 58.8° N 137.0° W
Temperature :: 46 °F / 8 °C
Conditions :: Overcast
Windchill :: 44 °F / 7 °C
Humidity :: 81%
Dew Point :: 41 °F / 5 °C
Wind :: 5 mph / 7 km/h / 2.1 m/s from the West
Pressure :: 29.98 in / 1015 hPa (Steady)
Visibility :: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV :: 1 out of 16
Clouds:
Overcast 800 ft / 243 m
(Above Ground Level)
It serves governments to 'separate' the issues of Human Induced Global Warming from Arctic Ocean demise. In the case of claiming sovereignty, it matters as to which countries are able to claim the Lion's Share of the Arctic Ocean. If the USA were able to prove it had sovereignty, under this adminisration, it would exploit the natural resources there without regard to the stability of Earth's climate. Other countries would be far more involved with stewardship of the natural resources found there and the extraction of same in relation to escalating Human Induced Global Warming. The Canadian and Russian claims look very promising.
Media Note
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
May 21, 2008
United States Participation in Arctic Ocean Conference (click here)
Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte will lead the United States delegation to the Arctic Ocean Conference hosted by the Government of Denmark in Ilulissat, Greenland, May 27-29. Other members of the U.S. delegation include Assistant Secretary for Oceans, Environment and Science Affairs Claudia A. McMurray, Legal Adviser John B. Bellinger and U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark James P. Cain.
The ministerial conference will consider key issues relating to the Arctic Ocean, and will also involve participation by the Governments of Canada, Norway and Russia. Deputy Secretary Negroponte looks forward to these discussions as well as bilateral meetings with his counterparts.
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Released on May 21, 2008
Ocean survey looks promising for Arctic sovereignty effort (click here)
Randy Boswell
Canwest News Service
Published: Friday, May 16, 2008
A six-week scientific mission aimed at extending Canadian sovereignty across an underwater mountain chain in the Arctic Ocean has yielded a crucial finding that should bolster the country's claims with the United Nations, the project chief has revealed.
Jacob Verhoef, the federal geoscientist leading Canada's bid to assert control of offshore territory in the High Arctic, told Canwest News Service on Friday that preliminary results of a seabed mapping project off Ellesmere Island suggest the submerged Alpha Ridge is attached to the Canadian landmass and appears likely to qualify under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea as an extension of the country's continental shelf....
